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The Origins of Music

The book can be viewed as representing the birth of evolutionary biomusicology.

What biological and cognitive forces have shaped humankind's musical behavior and the rich global repertoire of musical structures? What is music for, and why does every human culture have it? What are the universal features of music and musical behavior across cultures? In this groundbreaking book, musicologists, biologists, anthropologists, archaeologists, psychologists, neuroscientists, ethologists, and linguists come together for the first time to examine these and related issues. The book can be viewed as representing the birth of evolutionary biomusicology -- the study of which will contribute greatly to our understanding of the evolutionary precursors of human music, the evolution of the hominid vocal tract, localization of brain function, the structure of acoustic-communication signals, symbolic gesture, emotional manipulation through sound, self-expression, creativity, the human affinity for the spiritual, and the human attachment to music itself.

My name is Daniel Mohr and I am a senior high school student. I am currently doing research for a project and this book is EXACTLY what I was looking for. It is excellent and informative with thorough descriptions of different theories of where music came from.

Contents

An Introduction to Evolutionary Musicology

3

VOCAL COMMUNICATION IN ANIMALS

25

Prolegomena to a Biomusicology

27

Origins of Music and Speech Insights from Animals

31

Birdsong Repertoires Their Origins and Use

49

Whats Behind a Song? The Neural Basis of Song Learning in Birds

65

The Sound and the Fury Primate Vocalizations as Reflections of Emotion and Thought

77

Gibbon Songs and Human Music from an Evolutionary Perspective

103

The Musilanguage Model of Music Evolution

271

How Music Fixed Nonsense into Significant Formulas On Rhythm Repetition and Meaning

301

Synchronous Chorusing and Human Origins

315

Evolution of Human Music through Sexual Selection

329

Simulating the Evolution of Musical Behavior

361

Antecedents of the Temporal Arts in Early MotherInfant Interaction

389

A Neurobiological Role of Music in Social Bonding

411

UNIVERSALS IN MUSIC

425

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Social Organization as a Factor in the Origins of Language and Music

125

The Progressively Changing Songs of Humpback Whales A Window on the Creative Process in a Wild Animal

135

MUSIC LANGUAGE AND HUMAN EVOLUTION

151

Can Biomusicology Learn from Language Evolution Studies?

153

Toward an Evolutionary Theory of Music and Language

165

Paleoneurology and the Biology of Music

177

Hominid Brain Evolution and the Origins of Music

197

Fossil Evidence for the Origin of Speech Sounds

217

New Perspectives on the Beginnings of Music Archeological and Musicological Analysis of a Middle Paleolithic Bone Flute

235

THEORIES OF MUSIC ORIGIN

269

Human Processing Predispositions and Musical Universal

427

The Question of Innate Competencies in Musical Communication

449

An Ethnomusicologist Contemplates Universals in Musical Sound and Musical Culture